Enhance your students’ success in the GCSE Photography ESA (Unit 2) with this expertly designed and highly adaptable resource. This comprehensive project overview provides a structured approach to planning, breaking down the preparatory stages into manageable weekly tasks to keep students on track and focused. The resource features a curated selection of photographers from the exam paper, alongside additional artist references, offering a wealth of visual inspiration and guidance tailored to support the exam theme. With its ready-made content, it significantly reduces your preparation time, allowing you to focus on delivering impactful teaching. Perfectly adaptable for both digital and physical sketchbooks, this resource is a versatile addition to any photography curriculum. Equip your students with the tools to excel and streamline your own workload.

Engage Year 7 Students with This Exciting and Skill-Building Art Project! This carefully crafted project is the perfect introduction to art for Year 7 students as they begin their secondary school journey. Designed to develop basic drawing skills, it focuses on mastering pencil tones and pen techniques while introducing key concepts like composition and proportion in a fun and challenging way. The journey begins with primary observational drawing of their own shoes, a task that is both exciting and accessible. This hands-on activity encourages students to explore their individual styles while building essential skills. The project then transitions into portraiture, where students learn the basics of drawing facial features and study the artistic guidelines of Alberto Giacometti. They’ll create a thoughtful research page, deepening their understanding of the artist’s work and techniques. To wrap up, students will explore controlled scribble drawing, a freeing and enjoyable activity that hones their observational skills while encouraging creativity. With a balance of structure and exploration, this project ensures students feel confident and inspired as they develop their skills. Spanning 8-10 weeks, this project includes detailed learning objectives, key Tier 3 vocabulary. This resource is easy to implement, engaging, and sets the foundation for a lifelong love of creativity. Start the school year strong—bring this fun and educational project to your classroom today!

**Unlock the world of creativity and culture with our African Art Masks Project! ** This engaging and educational resource takes students (KS3) on a journey to explore the rich traditions of African masks while developing their artistic and technical skills. Students will dive into a variety of mask designs, techniques, and media, broadening their knowledge and deepening their appreciation for art from other cultures. Designed to be flexible and easy to follow, this project spans 6-10 weeks, providing ample time for students to understand, experiment, and master the techniques. The comprehensive PowerPoint presentation includes clear learning objectives, step-by-step instructions, WAGOLLs, and worksheets to guide and inspire students at every stage. Perfect for cultivating creativity, cultural awareness, and artistic mastery, this resource is an invaluable addition to any art curriculum. Whether you’re looking to enrich your classroom or inspire independent learning, this project delivers a well-rounded, impactful experience that students will love. Start the journey today!

Art activity used for summer school with year 6 students, which was very successful. Students really enjoyed creating characters inspired by Jon Burgerman using the polystyrene printing process. It can be used with other age group to get them started on printing techniques and illustrations. Learning mat (slide 8) was printed on A3 cartridge paper for students to work directly on it. Inspiration images of artist work is also included within the PowerPoint to save you time searching for additional images.

I have created a Texture Photography schemes of work for year 10. This is to ensure students can access it from home for Remote Learning and use their phone cameras to capture the pictures and also edit the images on free online softwares. There are wide range of artists and photographers in the SoW to keep the students busy. It’s a 12-week plan, however you can make it last longer. Resources (PowerPoints) will be made available soon. This project has been successful as students have captured some amazing viewpoints and compositions of texture utilising various ‘rules of photography’ and displaying dramatic photos from the use of lighting.

This tutorial will show you step-by-step on how to create multiple images of the same object/person in different position within one photo. Prior to editing, you will need to ensure you capture the pictures using a tripod with minimal movement to make it as realistic as possible when it comes to editing.

This tutorial shows how to create a step-by-step infrared photo on Adobe Photoshop (Apple but it’s pretty much the same tools and similar shortcuts as Windows) inspired by Richard Mosse. I have removed artists artwork from the PowerPoint as you may notice the blank pages but feel free to add it on yourself after for your lessons. Great way to understand colour correction and works really well with landscape photography.

A simple photo merge tutorial. Please ensure to capture the photos properly in order to achieve a successful photo merge. This is a very simple tool you can use within Photoshop to create it hence the low price.

Architecture Photography schemes of work for year 9 but can be easily adapted to any key stage group. It is a 9 week plan however, this is adjustable as to what fits you best. As part of the project I arranged a trip to Salford Quays, perfect for this topic and worth while doing a trip for your own class. It has many artists/photographers to get you going, save yourself hours of research and write up. Checklist attached for students to use.

4 photography ideas to help your students engaged and to help them develop their photography skills. Amend the PowerPoint as you see fit.

I tested this out with my year 11 and 12 and it was very successful. It’s a fun way to get students engaged in using long exposure with a dslr camera and get use to using the camera manually. I have put sample works of Michael Bosanko, Eric Staller, Hannu Huhtamo and Dana Maltby for inspiration. Students can begin with investigating couple of the artists for their sketchbooks then use their findings to create their own light painting. The PowerPoint teaches students how to edit their photos step-by-step. In order to achieve the best light painting you will need to slow down the shutter speed, narrow the aperture with a low ISO as you can imagine when the shutter is open for a long period of time, a lot of light will be going in. There is no specific settings to use on the camera and therefore students should experiment with exposure triangle (ISO, aperture and shutter speed) until it is the correct settings (worksheet added to record the settings). Please bear in mind the lens focus must be on ‘manual focus’ (MF) rather than ‘auto focus’ (AF) because when it’s dark, it will struggle to auto focus. You will need the following: - *DSLR camera (manual focus) *Tripod *lights (phone torch are fine) *Photoshop Hope this helps everyone and have fun!

Year 12 Mini Photography Projects This was very successful as students had very little time to waste and kept them focused to ensure the quality of work was high and think outside the box. 4 different ideas (1 week per project):- +Colour +Close-up +Reflection +Patterns & Repetition Try it.

Currently working on Architecture with our year 9 so heres a tutorial I did with them and the final outcome was a success. It was challenging but the end product was brilliant. The work is inspired by the photographer Simon Gardiner and used one of my photos as part of the tutorial. Students used the marquee tool to cut selections of the building to create a abstract piece of work along with various other tools on Photoshop. “Vortograph: the first completely abstract kind of photograph, composed of kaleidoscopic repetitions of forms achieved by photographing objects through a triangular arrangement of three mirrors.”

This project is to provide GCSE year 9 with basic knowledge on photography and how to use various tools on Adobe Photoshop. Students introduced to a variety of experiences and that explore range of photographic media, techniques and processes. Students will have the opportunity to produce their own photos using a compact and DSLR camera. Students will explore relevant images, artefacts and resources relating to a range of art and to produce contextual pieces of work from their research to show their understanding of artist, photographers and designers. Students will be working independently as well as in groups to help develop their interpersonal skills and sharing ideas. Students would be made aware of the four assessment objectives and marking criteria to ensure they achieve the best possible grades. Students will complete the project and present it digitally on PowerPoint (or in sketchbook) with relevant annotation along with a sketchbook to show their ideas and 3-5 final images. Trial and tested with our year 9 and it was successful. It allowed students to be more confident in using the camera and developed their understanding of photography. Furthermore, students gained basic skills in Photoshop and developed their ICT skills. This includes schemes of work, checklist for students and PowerPoints for each lesson along with Photoshop tutorials. Plenty of contextual studies and it will save you hours of resources. This was our first unit of work with year 9 so if there is any issue then let me know. Thanks and enjoy!

AQA A Level Art & Design (Photography) Component 2 Externally Set Task 7206/X Exam Paper 2017 PowerPoint - Artists research for inspiration for students to start them off. Visually appealing and supportive for students. Artists’ research (images of artist work & basic info taken from websites) within this PPT is according to the exam paper and with some extras. Save yourself a lot of time!

AQA GCSE Art & Design (Fine Art - 42022) Unit 2 Exam Paper 2017 PowerPoint - Artists research for inspiration for students to start them off. Visually appealing and supportive for students. Artists’ research (images of artist work & basic info taken from websites) within this PPT is according to the exam paper and with some extras. Save yourself a lot of time!

AQA GCSE Art & Design (Photography - 42062) Unit 2 Exam Paper 2017 PowerPoint - Artists research for inspiration for students to start them off. Visually appealing and supportive for students. Artists’ research (images of artist work & basic info taken from websites) within this PPT is according to the exam paper and with some extras. Save yourself a lot of time!

Ronen Goldman - Surrealism Photography Project. Photoshop tutorial on how to create artist inspired work. "LO: Analyse the artist work Ronen Goldman and create a supernatural and surreal piece inspired by the artist"

Surrealism Photography - Schemes of Work - 15 week plan Surrealism Photography project schemes of work. Tested with my year 11 classes and it was successful. It was a great project for students to develop different techniques, processes, creativity and complex Photoshop skills. PowerPoints for 12 weeks also included (some plan/PowerPoints is for 2 weeks due to complexity of Photoshop). Plenty of artists/photographers to be inspired by. Checklist for students to follow and space for marking. Alter if needed.

Surrealism Photography Project. Photoshop tutorial on how to create artist inspired work. "LO:Implement the technique used in multiplicity photography in your own work."